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[MIGRATORY NARRATIVES: WHY SOME STORIES REPLICATE ACROSS MEDIA,
CULTURES, HISTORICAL ERAS]

In Part One of the **Media in Transition: The Work of Stories** series,
panelists discuss how stories and myths endure over time, through
cultures, and across multiple media platforms.

[SPEAKERS]

**William C. Uricchio**
Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of
Comparative Media Studies, MIT

**Thomas Pettitt**
Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Denmark

**Richard Howells**
Senior Lecturer in Communications Arts and Postgraduate Research Tutor,
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

**Janet Staiger**
William P. Hobby Centennial Professorship in Communication, University
of Texas, Austin
PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/281/>

Quote:
"By still having myths, explaining ourselves in terms of myths we make
about ourselves, we have far more in common with so-called primitive
ancestors separated by time and space, but we all use media at hand to
tell theses enduring migratory narratives."
-- Richard Howells


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
<http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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[ANGEL GROUPS IN ACTION: FUNDING EARLY STAGE INNOVATION]

In Part Two of this series, panelists explore the violent nature of
stories and the social consequences of increasing violence in popular
culture.


[WHY ARE STORIES VIOLENT?]

**David Thorburn**
MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty Fellow

**Kevin Sandler**
Assistant Professor, Media Industries, The University of Arizona

**Maria Tatar**
Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures


PLAY NOW:  <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/280/>

Quote:

"What is the "magic art of the Great Humbug" in_ The Wizard of Oz_? The
power of language. He endows the Scarecrow with brains, he makes the
Lion courageous, just by saying so. These stories really enable children
by teaching them they too have the power to change reality--they can do
things with words. "
-- Maria Tatar

EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
<http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

The Chandra Astrophysics Institute presents

**Walter Lewin**
Professor of Physics, MIT


["THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT"]

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